Improvement in loom-harness



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t ALFRED R.r c oREY, lor PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND` Letters Patent No.95,198, dated September 2S, 17869.

l IMPROVEMENT. :N Loom-HARNESS'. f

`The Schedule referred toy in these' Lettera Patent and making part ofthe same.

` To lall persons to whom these presents may come j Be it known that I,ALFRED B. OOREY, of the city and county of Providence, oi' the State ofRhode Island,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Loom- ,Harness; and do4herebydeclare the vsame to befully.

described 4in the following specification, and represented v in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figures l and 2 are front views of theeyes of loomharness, as ordinarily forn1ed,of twine.` V

AFigure 3 is afront view ofa harness-eye, as made in accordance with myimprovement.

In iig; l, the harnesseyeA is formed of two separate twines, a @knottedtogether at the' top and E bottom ofthc eye, as shown at c d.

In iig. 2, the eye A is formed of a, single` twine, b, doubled at itsmiddle, and having its parts or halves `knotted togethery at the upperpart of the eye, as

shown at e, the other orV lower twine, a, of the hari l,nessbeing simplypassed once through theeye, so as to go halt' round its lower part. E

My improved harness is made with `two twines, YB C, the eye A' beingformed bydoublingthe upper twine B, and knottingor tying the halves ofit togethelyas shownat f, the whole being like the method adopted inmaking the eye A, shown in fig. 2.

Instead, however, of carrying the lower twine C` u but once through theeye, as in fig. 2, so that such twine C may butjpartially.encompass thelower part ci the eye, I` cause such twine C towholly encompass the saidlower part ofthe eye7 that is, I pass the twine through the eye, andnext wind it in a single coil entirely around the twine, or lower partof the. eye,l and,

next pass it through the eye a 'second time, the whole u being as shownin tig. 3, and also in Figure 4, which shows the said twine O as woundone and a half time about the lower part B', of the twine B.

When the harness, so made, is varnish'ed, the coil g will be securelyfixed to the eye A. i With my improvement, the twine C will be carriedthrough the eyeA' twice withone coil, rand one-half of a coil about thethread ,13; of'the eye A.

'By thns'being coiled around the loop-twine, the twine O will beprevented from .slipping up in the loop so as `to enable thewarp-thread, when the harness section may be in use, to come intocontact with and wear the bottom of the loop, such being of frequent`occurrence when .a harness-section is made as shown in iig. 2. l t t Itis desirable'to avoidknots ina harness, as the' more of them theremaybe, the more will bethe danger of injury to the warps by them.

` The eye of my harness-section, like that shown in fig; 2,'has but oneknot, therefore it possesses the advantages of Vthat shown in suchiigure, relatively to the harness shown in iig. 1,' whose eye has twoknots.

Instead of simply looping the upper twine B,'and.

winding the lower one, G, one coil and a half a coil aboutv the vertexof the loop of the `upper twine, the

lower twine may he simply looped, and the upper be wound one coil and ahalf about the lower twine, at the vertex'of the loop.

lhis is simply-another mode in which I have contemplated the applicationof my improvement.

My improvement causes the harness to have other advantages, that is tosay, it spreads thelower part of the eye better, and forms a rest orsaddle to keep the warp-thread in the middle of the eye, while suchwarp-thread may be in the act of being lraised by the eye. 1

v It also causes `the eye to stand so that its plane shall be nearer atright angles with the warp-thread lthan does either of the otherharnesses as described.

What, therefore, I'claim as my invention, is-

The improved loom-harness, as made with either twine wound withone coilanda half a coil about the loop of the other at the'lower part of thewarp-thread eye, the whole being substantially as described.`

ALFRED B. OOREY;

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R.'SNow.

